“ I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. ”
I will love thee, O Lord - This verse is not found in the song in 2 Samuel 22 . It appears to have been added after the first composition of the psalm, either by David as expressive of his arden...
XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additio...
Title. David. Like all Psalms of David, it finds its fulfilment in the true David. See the Structure of this book (p. 721). Compare Psalms 18:4 ; Psalms 18:5 with Psalms 17:9 . It is placed, as...
1. And he said, etc. I will not stop to examine too minutely the syllables, or the few words, in which this psalm differs from the song which is recorded in the twenty-second chapter of the...
DISCOURSE: 516 GOD THE ALL-SUFFICIENT PORTION OF HIS PEOPLE Psalms 18:1-3 . I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from...
David praiseth God for his manifold and marvellous blessings. Title. לדוד יהוה לעבד למנצח lamnatseach leebed Jehovah ledavid. To the chief musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord...
I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The time was the close of David's life. ( 2 Samuel 22:1-51 ; 2 Samuel 23:1-39 .) The varied form in 2 Samuel 22:1-51 , which omits the words "to the ch...
I will love thee] RV 'I love thee.' This v. is omitted in 2 S. It was perhaps inserted when the Ps. was adapted for use by the congregation in the Temple.
I will love thee . — Better, Dearly do I love thee. The line is wanting in Samuel. My strength. — This strikes the keynote of the whole poem. The strong, mighty God is the object in David’s tho...
Psalms 18:1-50 THE description of the theophany ( Psalms 18:7-19 ) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories ( Psalms 18:32-46 ) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former ca...
a Wonderful Deliverance Psalms 18:1-26 There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1-51 . Psalms 18:2 ; Psalms 18:2 and Psalms 18:49 are applied in the New Testament to the Lord...
This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
CONTENTS We met with this Psalm in David's history, 2 Samuel 22:1 and had it referred to David only, I see no reason why it should make a part in this book. Indeed, doth it not seem, by being plac...
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. These words are not in twenty second chapter of Second Samuel: the psalm there begins with Psalms 18:2 . The psalmist here expresses his love to the Lord, a...
Psalms 18:1 «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his ene...
I will love thee Hebrew, ארחמךְ, erchamecha , I will love thee most affectionately, and with my whole soul. I can make thee no better return for all thy favours than my love, which I pray thee to...
David's Triumphs in God; Devout Confidence. To the chief musician, A psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unt...
PSALM 18 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm, with some few and small variations, is written 2Sa 22 . It was composed by David towards the end of his reign and life upon the occasion here mentioned. The serv...
David Expresses His Trust in YHWH ( Psalms 18:1-3 ). Psalms 18:1 ‘I love you, O YHWH, my strength.' These words are added to the beginning of the original Psalm. They are not found in the para...
INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commen...
Psalms 18:1 . I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. «I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.» Psalms 18:2 . The LO...
David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his...
I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. The tale of a life In this magnificent hymn the royal poet sketches, in a few grand outlines, the tale of his life--the record of his marvellous deliveran...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles...
I will love Thee, with the most tender affection, O Lord, my Strength, in protecting and defending him.
1 John 4:19 ; 1 Samuel 2:1-10 ; 2 Samuel 22:1-51 ; Acts 13:36 ; Colossians 1:11 ; Exodus 15:1-21 ; Hebrews 3:5 ; Isaiah 12:1-6 ; Isaiah 12:2 ; Judges 5:1-31 ; Philippians 4:13 ; Psalms 34...
Love — Most affectionately, and with my whole soul; as the Hebrew word signifies.